How the Earth works. Part 4 of 4.
Título:
How the Earth works. Part 4 of 4.
ISBN:
9781598034066
Información de publicación:
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2008]
©2008
Descripción física:
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
Nota general:
Lectures 37-48 of 48 thirty minute lectures on 8 discs in 4 containers.
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
DVD format.
Contenido:
Pt. 3. Lecture 37. Glaciers : the power of ice -- Lecture 38. Planetary wobbles and the last ice age -- Lecture 39. Long-term climate change -- Lecture 40. Short-term climate change -- Lecture 41. Climate change and human history -- Lecture 42. Plate tectonics and natural resources -- Lecture 43. Nonrenewable energy sources -- Lecture 44. Renewable energy sources -- Lecture 45. Humans : dominating geologic change -- Lecture 46. History of life : complexity and diversity -- Lecture 47. The solar system : Earth's neighborhood -- Lecture 48. The lonely planet : Fermi's paradox.
Síntesis:
Course covers the making of our planet from the Big Bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth. Travel to the center of our planet and out again, charting the geologic forces that churn beneath our feet to push the continents and sea floor.
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DAK_511:
Taught by: Professor Michael E. Wysession, Washington University in St. Louis.
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn226375894
Disponibilidad:
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